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Firehouse Subs
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedNovember 6, 2025
- address16929 Se 270Th Pl, 106, Covington 98042
Is Firehouse Subs clean?
Firehouse Subs is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Firehouse Subs?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))critical1710 - Proper hot holding temperatures; less than 130 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Firehouse Subs last inspected?
Firehouse Subs has 6 inspections on record going back to July 6, 2023, averaging 6 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 30 pts |
| March 14, 2025 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 25, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| April 25, 2024 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| November 14, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| July 6, 2023 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Firehouse Subs vs Covington
Covington runs 85% clean across 175 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 25 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 175 spots Cooked tracks in Covington, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.
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How Seattle grades restaurants
Public Health — Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot — it averages the establishment’s recent routine inspections, so one bad day does not sink a consistently clean kitchen and one good day does not rescue a bad one. Inspectors score violations in red points for things that directly cause foodborne illness and blue points for everything else; around 45 red points triggers a mandatory re-inspection. Newly opened or recently changed spots can show as Not Rated until enough inspections accumulate.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated November 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.